Complaining cellars, cooking kitchens
I read this article this morning:
⁇ One in three Dutch people thinks home is not heat resistant enough (NU.nl)
And as far as I'm concerned, that's the kind of head that either makes you laugh loudly or makes you very quiet.
A third of Dutch people think that their home cannot withstand the heat.
It's like the heat is coming out of nowhere. As if we were attacked by a phenomenon that no one could have predicted.
No, no, no, no. We've known this for decades.
But all of a sudden, it's personal.
Suddenly it's your attic, your sleepless night, your overheated baby room.
“The climate crisis only lands in the head when he walks into your living room.”
Climate denial with the fan on position three
And then there is the paradox:
At the same time, a large part of the Netherlands is still complaining that climate change is exaggerated.
Or worse: That it's all nonsense. The natural cycle. Sunspots. The leftist propaganda.
But I do complain that the house feels like an oven.
However, it does grumble that the asphalt melts under your lease car.
Sweatingly setting the air conditioner to 19 degrees – and then being angry that the energy bill is rising.
“You can't eat ice cream and deny the heat that melts it.”
When does discomfort finally become conviction?
Everyone wants comfort. Understandable.
But if that comfort is structurally facilitated by denial, procrastination and self-deception, then it is no longer comfort. Then it's collective destruction.
We want cool, but without green roofs.
We want shade, but without trees.
We want solutions, but without concessions.
“Anyone who is willing to change only if it does not conflict with ease will not change anything.”
No climate policy? Then no coolness
There are people who say: “I am not against climate policy, but it must remain achievable.”
That's the same as saying: “I want to lose weight, but I don’t want to stop with fries.”
What we need is vision, courage and above all: inconvenience.
Structural, profound discomfort.
Only then will we be able to build homes that well They can withstand heat.
And to a society that not It collapses as soon as the mercury rises.
“Cooling is not a right. It is a choice that we as a society must deserve.”
English (UK)